Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Human versus Chess Robot: This is as big as it gets! One of the strongest chess players in the world Sergey Karjakin will take on chess robot ChessKa for a prize-money of one million rubles.

The Blitz Chess Championships 2013 for Chess Playing Robots and a unique match between Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin and chess robot ChessKa (aka Chess Terminator) will be held during 'Metalworking 2013' at the Exhibition Center in Moscow from May 27-27. Karjakin stands to win one million roubles if he beats the 'machine'.

Considering Mr ChessKa would not be getting tired so, in addition, kids from ages 6 to 10 in three age categories will also play with the robot. The providers of the event invite all young chess enthusiasts to compete with the robot and receive prizes. To apply for competition entry: chessrobot@yandex.ru.

Date

Event

May 27th, 2013

12.00 - 16.00

Children against robots

Blitz-tournament with robot for
children from 6 to 10 years old. Ceremonial awarding.

May 28th, 2013

12.00 - 16.00

Children against robots

Blitz-tournament with robot for
children from 6 to 10 years old. Ceremonial awarding.

May 29th, 2013

12.00 - 16.00

Children against robots

Blitz-tournament with robot for
children from 6 to 10 years old. Ceremonial awarding.

May 30th, 2013

12.00

World Chess Blitz Championship of
Chess Playing Robots 2013

May 31st, 2013

11.00 - 15.00

Millennium Chess Challenge

The match between the International
Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin and the

robot.

The commentator of the match is
Grandmaster Sergey Shipov.

Prize Fund is 1 million rubles.

General sponsor – the Group of companies DAMATE, www.acdamate.com with the support of the nonprofit organization Fund for support of the chess art www.chessdvor.ru.

This is big - I wish all the best to Sergey Karjakin. Considering his recent performance at Norway Chess he is in form. But guess ChessKa is no walkover. This will be fun. It would be great to watch this chess match live.